Peter Wiggins - Element Drop

Element Drop

Have you ever had a bunch of Quicktime movies or image files that you needed to lay out in Final Cut Pro? Maybe you’re making an element tape for delivery to a client, or prepping a bunch of lower thirds and titles for your program? Dale Bradshaw found himself doing a lot of this repetitive work. For example, each image would follow a certain set of rules, an element should be 5 seconds duration with a minimum of 5 seconds between each element. If you are like him, you'd grab all of your elements throw them in a timeline and do the carpal tunnel inducing dance of the up/down arrows. There had to be an easier way.

Well, using XML, there really is an easier way. Element Drop is a super simple drag and drop application that lays out a Final Cut timeline of Quicktime movies or images. Drag and drop a bunch of elements on the application and Final Cut Pro is launched and each element is layed out in a timeline based on user preferences. Chapter Markers can be included for super easy approval DVD’s

Try out this beta version of Dales's handy utility here

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Any body used this? - if so let us know!
written by Peter Wiggins on May 20, 2007

I came across this a while ago, but I've been too busy doing other things to give it a try out.
if anybody has used this I'd be very interested if they could post their comments here.

Thanks!

Peter

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